After the sunsetting of the old net but before the dead internet there was a website called Twitter. It was a fun enough corner of the late internet, and the API was simple enough that there were a million innocent bots posting anime pictures and endless apps to tie-in with your account. Favstar and Vine! One such silly app called "Shindan" emerged that allowed you to create stupid and randomly generated "diagnoses" by entering your name. Mystical predictions, horoscopes, and "Which Attack on Titan Character Are You?" quizzes proliferated.

Enter Ryan. Way back in 2015, I was trying to be epic and meta. So I made a few stupid Shindans, had a few chuckles, and then forgot about them. In 2017, when social factors accelerated the internet's rot cycle forever, I overreacted and infused my meta with edgy. I might have done things a little more tactfully today. Nevertheless, the Shindans I created during that time survive, and they are a testament to an online era when the landscape of engagement modes was freezing out and a social scene that once belonged to legitimate enthusiasts devolved into politics and stratified degeneracy.

It's notable that the "Anitwitter Handle" Shindan contains nothing original in it. I did zero creation. The names and pieces of handles were taken from real users as I spent hours crawling profiles I would rather have stayed away from. I can't help but notice that at the time of writing (2025), names in this style are missing from the website. Everyone likes to say that "Twitter died because X Y Z", "It's such a shitty and dead place now", "Hellsite" etc, but actually the people who left were all the ones with tasteful names like "AssDumpster69", and good fucking riddance.

08.09.2025